Music

July 28, 2009

A SWCSA video talking about just in time grooming and 3PAR's reservationless approach to resource utilization in their InServ storage arrays. Thin provisioned storage and snapshots (3PAR's Virtual Copy software) are assigned storage resources at the time they are needed - and not before. That means that Administrators don't have to guess which pools to put disk drives in - or how to structure hypers and metas with 3PAR.

August 25, 2008

I caught this meme from Author Nicholas Carr and Amazon's chief technology officer, Werner Vogels. The idea is to pick and album for every year of your life. No bands or artists can repeat (although I think band members with solo albums count as separate entities). I tried to make sure the album for a given year was released during that year. If you are a music lover, you ought to give this a try - whether or not you have a blog to post it to. It will likely bring back memories of music that you haven't listened to for several years.

Here's my list:

1957: Thelonius Monk, Monk's Music*

1958: Duke Ellington,
Black, Brown and Beige

1959: Charles Mingus,
Mingus Ah Um

1960: Ornette
Coleman, Free Jazz

1961: John Coltrane,
at the Village Vanguard

1962: Kingston Trio, Best of the Kingston Trio

1963: Dick Dale, King
of the Surf Guitar

1964: Eric Dolphy,
Out to Lunch

1965: Andrew Hill,
Compulsion

1966: Beatles,
Revolver

1967: Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow

1968: Steppenwolf,
Steppenwolf

1969: Captain Beefheart,
Trout Mask Replica

1970: Frank Zappa,
Weasels Ripped my Flesh

1971: Led
Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV

1972: Sun Ra, Space
is the Place

1973: Art Ensemble of
Chicago, Fanfare for the Warriors

1974: Loggins and Messina, Mother Lode

1975: Julius
Hemphill, Coon Bid’ness

1976: Tom Waits, Small Change

1977: Bonnie Raitt,
Sweet Forgiveness

1978: Bruce
Springsteen, Darkness on the Edge of Town

1979: Joy
Division, Unknown Pleasures

1980: Kate Bush,
Never for Ever

1981: Material, Memory Serves

1982: Gang of Four, Songs
of the Free

1983: James Blood
Ulmer, Odyssey

1984: Stevie Ray
Vaughn, Couldn’t Stand the Weather

1985: Dire Straits,
Bothers in Arms

1986: Albert
Collins, Cold Snap

1987: Midnite
Oil, Diesel and Dust

1988: Was Not Was,
What Up Dog

1989: Love and
Rockets, Love and Rockets

1990: Los Lobos, The
Neighborhood

1991: Pearl Jam, Ten

1992: Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes

1993: Morphine, Cure
for Pain

1994: Soundgarden,
Superunknown

1995: Radiohead, The Bends

1996: Lyle
Lovett, The Road to Ensenada,

1997: Kate Rusby,
Hourglass

1998: Lucinda
Williams, Car Wheels on a Dusty Road

1999: Foo Fighters,
There is Nothing Left to Lose

2000: U2, All That You Can’t Leave Behind

2001: Bjork,
Vespertine

2002: Christina
Aguilera, Stripped

2003: Outkast,
Speakerboxxx

2004: Green Day,
American Idiot

2005: Queens of the
Stone Age, Lullabies to Paralyze

2006: Muse, Black Holes and Revelations

2007: Eddie Vedder,
Into the Wild

*Originally I had Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane's album, Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane for 1957. But having John Coltrane again in 1961, I thought this stretched the 'no repeat' rule too far, so I replaced it with Monk's, Monk's Music.